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Roman Polanski's lawyer in Poland said on Tuesday that he and his client had been expecting an official decision to revive an effort to extradite the director to the United States to face rape charges.

Roman Polanski, the film director, said he was happy that a Polish court had ruled against extraditing him to the United States over a 1977 conviction, but rued that he had lost another year of time to the legal process.

The victim has forgiven him. The judge is dead. It's been almost 30 years since Roman Polanski fled the United States after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with an underage girl and serving time in jail. The public scandal and private tragedy which led to Polanski's sudden flight from the United States is examined, as well as the question of whether or not the Oscar-winning director can ever return.